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The Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) in Guinea on Saturday declared President Alpha Conde as the winner of last weekend’s presidential vote, polling 59.41 percent of the ballot.
President Alpha Conde has urged calm after the publication of partial results of Sunday’s presidential election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) sparked violence in Conakry and across Guinea.
Guinea’s manin opposition leader, Cellou Dalein Diallo, as one might expect, declared himself the winner of the October 18 presidential election; but the strategy of the candidate of the UFDG gives rise to fear of bloody clashes if the CENI takes the opposite course.
The candidate of the National Alliance for Democratic Change (ANAD), Cellou Dalein Diallo, has claimed victory ahead of the official results of Sunday’s presidential election.
With Covid-19 cases blighting the Guinean national football squad, a friendly match slated on Tuesday in Portugal between the Syli National against and Gambia’s Scorpions has been canceled, APA can report.
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, on Thursday in a statement, called on all candidates in the October 18 presidential election in Guinea to refrain from fuelling ethnic divisions for political reasons.
Guinea’s crackdown on protests against Alpha Conde’s candidacy for a third term “has resulted in the deaths of at least 50 people in less than a year,” an Amnesty International report sent to APA Thursday revealed.
The main opposition Union of Democratic Forces of Guinea (UFDG) has consulted with its federal offices over whether to participate in the October 18 presidential election.
Guinea’s former Defense Minister, Abdoul Kabele Camara, was designated last Wednesday as a candidate for the October 18 presidential election, at the end of a convention of his party, the ‘Rassemblement des Guineens pour le développement’ (RGD).
The President of Guinea, Alpha Condé announced on Tuesday evening on national television that the presidential election will indeed take place on October 18 as planned by the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI).